The Inheritance, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1894 First published in 1824, The Inheritance is the second novel by Susan Ferrier (1782-1854). Following the triumph of her more famous work Marriage (1818), The Inheritance picks up Ferrier's favoured theme of tried and tested morality. The focus here is on the fortunes of the young and innocent Gertrude St.Clair, who through the machinations of the desperate Mrs. St.Clair, leaves their home in France and arrives as heir apparent to the Scottish estate of Rossville. Contrary to the Earl of Rossville's plans however, Gertrude refuses the hand of the prepared suitor and instead falls under the spell of the ambitious and dashing Colonel Delmour. Ignoring the presence and guiding hand of the measured Edward Lyndsay who truly loves her, Gertrude throws herself into the bewitching gaieties of the fashionable world leaving all sense of duty behind her. Shadowing her light footsteps however is the figure of a mysterious and demanding stranger whose claim on Gertrude is to shape a very different future for her. Humanising the strain of evangelism in the novel is the inclusion of a collection of highly amusing and colourful characters, which, as noted in the new introduction, helps to display The Inheritance as 'a novel which shows Ferrier's skills as a satirist and caricaturist in their best light and that remains moreover one of the greatest examples of domestic fiction in the Scottish literary tradition'. --Ronnie Young. |
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... least to gain time , can you altogether con- demn me if I have taken advantage of this person's unwarranted claim upon her fortune , to induce a belief in her mind that that claim does in reality extend to her hand , and that- -But , oh ...
... least to gain time , can you altogether con- demn me if I have taken advantage of this person's unwarranted claim upon her fortune , to induce a belief in her mind that that claim does in reality extend to her hand , and that- -But , oh ...
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... least , it is to be hoped , exercise some self - controul , and not suffer yourself to be read and commented upon by every curious eye which chooses to look in your face . Happily ' tis one that even crying cannot spoil ; you have only ...
... least , it is to be hoped , exercise some self - controul , and not suffer yourself to be read and commented upon by every curious eye which chooses to look in your face . Happily ' tis one that even crying cannot spoil ; you have only ...
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... least , in mercy , suspend your judgment . " " That's impossible . Suspend my judgment ! that's your fashionable phrases you seem to think a man can suspend his judgment as he would hang up his hat ! —I canna help judging o ' what comes ...
... least , in mercy , suspend your judgment . " " That's impossible . Suspend my judgment ! that's your fashionable phrases you seem to think a man can suspend his judgment as he would hang up his hat ! —I canna help judging o ' what comes ...
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... least have had the satis- faction of knowing the nature of the evils you are exposed to but Mrs St Clair's situation puts an end to that hope for the present . I trust I leave you in safety , and I shall not stay long away ; but if , in ...
... least have had the satis- faction of knowing the nature of the evils you are exposed to but Mrs St Clair's situation puts an end to that hope for the present . I trust I leave you in safety , and I shall not stay long away ; but if , in ...
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... least twenty years younger , and had all along settled in her own mind that he was to die long before her ; and from having at first contemplated the possibility of his leaving her a small legacy , she had next considered it as highly ...
... least twenty years younger , and had all along settled in her own mind that he was to die long before her ; and from having at first contemplated the possibility of his leaving her a small legacy , she had next considered it as highly ...
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agitation agony Anne Anne Black answer Anthony Whyte assure Augusta beauty better blush burst calm canna carriage certainly Chapter Colonel Delmour Countess of Rossville cousin cried Gertrude cried Mrs St daughter dear dearest Gertrude dinna dinner door dress Duchess emotion EURIPIDES exclaimed eyes fear feelings felt flattered forgive frae Gertrude's give guardian Guy Mannering hand happiness head hear heard hearse heart hope instantly Lady Betty Lady Charles Lady Rossville Lady Rossville's ladyship Larkins laudanum leave length Lewiston lips look Lord Rossville lover Lyndsay Lyndsay's Major Waddell mamma manner Masham maun ment Millbank mind Miss Pratt morning mortification mother never passed passion person pleasure promise Ramsay returned rose scarcely seemed servant sigh smile St Clair St Ives sure tears tell there's thing thought to-day told tone trude turned uncle Adam uttered voice weel wish words